Doing a big movie screening project this summer and the weekends are when I do my heavy lifting. I'm watching "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull," "Gone with the Wind," "Casablanca" and "12 Angry Men," all for the first time.

All movie-watching plans for this weekend revolve around DVD's. I may finally get around to watching Julie Taymor's Titus, but something tells me I'll probably just end up watching something totally different. I've been planning on a musical marathon of Cabaret, Moulin Rouge!, Chicago, All That Jazz, and Nine for some time now and for no particular reason. But once again, that'll probably end up not happening (I switch "movie-moods" like every minute)! So the only thing that I know I'll definitely be watching this weekend is Shutter Island, which I loved when I saw it in theaters btw. I saw Splice last weekend and reveled in the messy/bizarre glory of it all.

Might see The A-Team on Sunday with friends, but other than that probably nothing. I'm just disappointed that "Winter's Bone" didn't open where I live. I saw it marked down as having a "limited release" opening, but it wasn't listed strictly as NYC/LA, but apparently that's where it opened. You'd think that one of these days other big cities (Chicago, Houston, Dallas, etc...) would start getting the limited releases at the same time as NYC/LA, but it's still rare. Houston (my home) will probably have to wait close to an extra month to see I am Love. *sad*

Nothing to see in the theatres (for most of the summer, it looks like). So I'm watching tv on DVD, the first season of "Royal Pains". A fired NYC emergency doctor is taken to the Hamptons by his brother, and becomes an on-call doctor making house calls to the rich.

It's a fun enough summer series, and Mark Feuerstein is (almost) charming enough to carry a lead. The casting directors who think his brother is endearing, though, are wrong. Paolo Constanzo's faux-naif schtick might have worked when he was a teenager but now he appears shallow, lacking in technique, and irritating.

It reminds me a bit of Dirty Sexy Money, but that had much better writing and a way better cast (Donald Sutherland, Peter Krause).